One presumes that this is for the Muslim patients' foot-baths, not daily (weekly?) bathing, per se.

Currently, only patients being treated in a few hospitals are privy to this over-the-top medical care, but that's slated to expand next year.

Again, I have no objection to patients being afforded a certain degree of comfort, but this puts actual, sick folks at risk, as well as representing a significant additional drain on an already strained health delivery system. If Muslim patients want to pay for this themselves, fine, have at it. But it seems to me that it's not the business of health care providers to render this sort of treatment. That's what volunteers (and paid private nurses) are for.

Of course, this is a nationalized health care system, so what the gummint says, goes. There's really no option for health care providers to demur, since the state has determined what's covered, and what's not.

One presumes that this is for the Muslim patients' foot-baths, not daily (weekly?) bathing, per se.

Currently, only patients being treated in a few hospitals are privy to this over-the-top medical care, but that's slated to expand next year.

Again, I have no objection to patients being afforded a certain degree of comfort, but this puts actual, sick folks at risk, as well as representing a significant additional drain on an already strained health delivery system. If Muslim patients want to pay for this themselves, fine, have at it. But it seems to me that it's not the business of health care providers to render this sort of treatment. That's what volunteers (and paid private nurses) are for.

Of course, this is a nationalized health care system, so what the gummint says, goes. There's really no option for health care providers to demur, since the state has determined what's covered, and what's not.